Jake Bugg, Django Django, The Maccabees and Modest Mouse also lined up for Irish festival

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Phoenix, Foals, Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Kraftwerk have been lined up to play the first ever Longitude festival.

Jake Bugg, Django Django, The Maccabees and Modest Mouse are also set to appear at the Irish bash, which takes place the same weekend as Suffolk’s Latitude Festival from Friday July 19 to Sunday July 21. Longitude will take place in Marlay Park in the backdrop of the Dublin mountains. It is being put on by events organiser MCD, which put on Oxegen Festival, which did not take place in 2012.

Other acts set to appear include Laura Mvula, Wolf Alice, Gold Panda, Dutch Uncles, King Krule, Japandroids, and Tribes. Tickets are onsale now priced at €149.50 for the weekend or €54.50 for a day ticket. There is no camping at the festival.

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